Trine Riel is a writer based in Ireland. Her essays on homoerotics, cosmic pessimism and death have appeared in various newspapers and magazines. She is the series editor of 'Bibliotek for Antinatalisme' [Library of Antinatalism] at the Danish publisher Forlaget Senmund.
In 2019 Riel completed their PhD on Nietzsche and asceticism at University of Galway. She was a visiting researcher at Essex University, School of Philosophy & Art History, in 2018 and holds a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Selected conference presentations: Ascetics between renunciation and emancipation, The Ends of Autonomy Colloquium, University of Warwick 2020; How to invent a life of one’s own: Nietzsche’s poetics as ascetics, American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Harvard University 2016; The practice of Theoria: Notes for artistic research, Between the Discursive and the Immersive Conference, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art 2016; The philosopher’s product is his life, Nietzsche Symposium, National University of Ireland Galway 2015; Nuclear Futurism, Aesthetics After Finitude Conference, University of New South Wales Sydney 2015; "Why I am so Clever": Nietzsche and myopic philosophy, Film-Philosophy Conference, King’s College London 2013.
